Formwork

An ongoing construction site.
Formwork is an independent design studio founded by Barbara Virginia Tedeschi (IT) and César Bourgeois (FR), working across visual communication, art direction, and spatial thinking.

We guide projects through their formation. We are drawn to ideas in the making — unstable, unfinished, and full of potential. We work to develop solid foundations, building structures designed to hold and evolve over time. Alongside client work, Formwork operates as a Lab. A space for independent exploration, where ideas can exist outside of immediate application. These experiments generate friction, producing noise that feeds back into commissioned projects.

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

Flights is a photographic book made for Ambra Crociani, collecting images taken entirely on board aircraft. The work dwells on waiting, and on the almost white-noise feeling of time suspended in transit. The book is conceived as a light object, in tune with its subject, with an elongated format that gives the images room to breathe. The Singer-sewn binding is hidden beneath an unscored yellow dust jacket, recalling both the images and the markings of landing strips. Text is set in Step, a custom version of SIL Sophia drawn in-house by the studio.

Book Design: Formwork Studio, in collaboration with Allegra Caricato

Art Direction: Ambra Crociani

Typeface: Step (custom SIL Sophia), Formwork Studio

Project type: Book

Year: 2026